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Conr. Gesneri Tigurini, medicinae et philosophiae professoris in Schola Tigurina, Historiae animalium liber II : qui est De quadrupedibus ouiparis

by: Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565; Wechel, Johann, d. 1593, printer; Cambier, Robert, d. ca. 1598, publisher; Schmarda, Ludwig K. (Ludwig Karl), 1819-1908, former owner. DSI; Inzaghi, Joannes Josephus, d. 1722, former owner. DSI; National Zoological Park (U.S.), former owner. DSI; C.E. Haessler (Firm), bookseller. DSI; Burndy Library, donor. DSI

Publication date: 1586

Topics: Pre-Linnean works, Early works to 1800, Zoology, Amphibians, Reptiles

Publisher: Francofurdi : Ex officina typographica Ioannis Wecheli : Impensis Roberti Cambieri

Collection: biodiversity

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: Latin

Volume: liber 2, 1586

Title page vignette ("De crocodilo terrestri, aegyptiaco vel arabico") also appears on p. 23

Pages 22 and 78 are misnumbered 25 and 87, respectively

Includes indexes

Signatures: *⁴ A-K⁶

Leaf *4 (p. [7]-[8], 1st group) is blank

citation/reference: Wellisch, H. Conrad Gessner, 24.2

additional physical form: Also available online

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SCNHRB and SCDIRB have one copy each

SCNHRB copy 39088016899387 is imperfect: the blank leaf *4 (p. [7]-[8], 1st group) is wanting

SCNHRB copy has bookseller's printed label on front paste-down endpaper: Aus C.E. Haessler's Magazin wohlfeiler gebundener Bücher. Hamburg. Neuenwall 142

SCNHRB copy is stamped on t.p.: National Zoological Park; overstamped: Cancelled; written in ink: 486

SCNHRB copy is stamped on verso of t.p.: Ludwig K. Schmarda; Smithsonian National Zoological Park Institution [overstamped] Cancelled; Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Aug 23 1944, accession number [in red written over in black pencil] 326592

SCNHRB copy has an old gilt-tooled, tree-stained full leather binding with raised bands, marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt. Housed in a modern linen-covered box with printed brown paper spine label (the date "1602" was printed on the spine label in error)

SCNHRB copy is bound with: Gessner, C. Historia animalium. Liber V, qui est De serpentium natura. Tiguri : In officina Froschouiana, MDLXXXVII [1587] -- Gessner, C. Nomenclator aquatilium animantium. Heidelbergae : E Typographeio Iohannis Lancelloti : Impensis Andreae Cambieri, anno MDCVI [1606]

SCDIRB copy 39088016899429 has ownership inscription of Count Joannes Josephus Inzaghi on t.p. dated 1692; binding stamped with initials I.F.D.E and date 1599 on front cover

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner

SCDIRB copy has a contemporary binding of blind-tooled full alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, stamped on the front and back with allegorical female figures; raised bands; metal clasps; and blue edges. Housed in a modern archival paperboard portfolio with reddish-brown paste-paper spine

SCDIRB copy is bound with: Historia animalium. Liber III, qui est De auium natura. Francofurdi : Ex officina typographica Ioannis Wecheli : Impensis Roberti Cambieri, 1585